arides
\a.ʁid\
The verdict
“arides” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,319. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,319
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de aride.
Corpus desk
Index FR-arides · arides · French
arides · rank #27,319 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,319
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH apnée
Nearest frequency peer: apnée (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « arides »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- aménagées
aménagées
72,685 corpus weight
- ani
ani
72,684 corpus weight
- apnée
apnée
72,683 corpus weight
- arides
arides
72,682 corpus weight
- aristocrati…
aristocratique
72,681 corpus weight
- Arm
Arm
72,680 corpus weight
What this shows « arides » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | arides |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.ʁid\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #27,319 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « arides »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around arides (IPA \a.ʁid\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #27,319 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de aride.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for arides, with forms such as "airdes", "ardies", and "ariddes". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "aris", "armés", "Arles", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is arides, spelled A-R-I-D-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de aride.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how arides appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’en serais là si quelque chose faisait manquer mon plan, si, après m’être courbé dans la poussière de la province, avoir rampé comme un tigre affamé autour de ces négociants, de ces électeurs pour avoir leurs votes ; si après avoir plaidaillé d’arides affaires, avoir donné mon temps, un temps que je pourrais passer sur le lac Majeur à voir les eaux qu’el…
Pour gravir aisément la rue du Petit-Pavé, il eût fallu des motos de grasstrack ou de trial, et des pilotes habitués aux escalades de pentes arides et savonneuses.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- airdes
- ardies
- ariddes
- aridess
- aridse
- arieds
- arrides
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of arides - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).